tescreal

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by tescreal 1mo ago
Banning is the only surefire way to provoke interest among kids. Whatever they're denied, they will inevitably be drawn to (at least a healthy %).
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by tescreal 1mo ago
I really want to see hard evidence of distillation before I buy into it. Seems like a lot of sour grapes over not having the sort of lead assumed. In this field, it has been shown repeatedly that leaps in performance come swiftly and withou
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by tescreal 2mo ago
How did we get to loonie tunes levels of absurdity? I understand dragnet fishing is destructive, but who first decided that dynamite was a good fishing method?
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by tescreal 2mo ago
it would be good to look for ".lower()" squatters if you host on an idn.
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by tescreal 2mo ago
I expect the only plausible chance (and it is a stretch) will be at-the-censor marking. Quantum bla bla magic pixie dust or unicorn farts something. The chance of a trustworthy (including from nation-state tampering a la Stalin et al) means
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by tescreal 2mo ago
I'm curious if anybody has tried to figure out roughly the % of bot comments? I keep seeing the "ai-talking cliches", but wonder if I'm crazy because people (or... other bots???) take it at face value.
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by tescreal 2mo ago
I see "Claude" listed as a contributor. Could you describe how and how much? I'm keen to see how this looks in practise. As for the tool, it scratches an itch I've been having, I'll give it a go soon.
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by tescreal 2mo ago
Entrenched ideas have momentum. Your lone-warrior attitude is admirable if not lacking in substance. Most fields have had occasional hangups on dead ends, such as the aforementioned Minsky "symbolic > connectivist" debacle. Beh
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by tescreal 2mo ago
I suspect there's a disconnect. I'm noting a lack of note about the real burden of finding capital to launch even a rather modest venture. YC is an exclusive club (no offense folks, it is very much a club), and there's only s
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by tescreal 2mo ago
A key problem is upper-level academia is rife with the same sorts of human-scale power dynamics. Petty squabbles, ideological (and ideological-flavoured) views can and do hold entire fields from time to time. It is only a particular type of
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by tescreal 2mo ago
It's frustrating that this could be read as entirely sincere in this 2026, year of our plague.
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by tescreal 2mo ago
They're just silently waiting. No need to make a big show, just simply being the best alternative is enough of a pitch.
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by tescreal 2mo ago
Emacs does everything. I want everything to be more like Emacs
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by tescreal 2mo ago
Counter proposal: stop making gui, ONLY make TUI. + seamless cli integration + network portable + graphics (!!) with modern emulators + always themable + scriptable + works with any navigation modality + you can copy & paste entire se
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by tescreal 2mo ago
A few points for people: 1. some books are out of print. 2. some books CANNOT return to print. 3. all books prior to the 21st century are products of human minds. 4. copyright extends over the vast majority of printed material due to accele
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by tescreal 2mo ago
I have a tidy collection of books that are odd or fascinating to me. They're old. But you mistake people like me for being made of money. Old books shouldn't simply vanish. That is history, art, authorial creation. Once the last c
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by tescreal 2mo ago
Reading this is sad. Marvin The Paranoid Android Tries Business.
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by tescreal 2mo ago
I wonder how much of AI is about owning all knowledge, deskilling the masses, reducing access, etc.? The end goal might be actual legit surfdom. Without the means to elevate the people's knowledge (and the companies have already stated
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by tescreal 2mo ago
They're removing knowledge from the public domain. I don't mean copyright: I mean the very information published is being destroyed.
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by tescreal 2mo ago
This has been reported of other major ai shops. It is a little chilling that they're going after rare books. For the record, i don't much have issue with llms and such. But... the wholesale destruction of printed books is a bridge
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by tescreal 2mo ago
the ratio of this comment vs. parent is absurd. tfa's prior mentions "anti-cheat" in games. while cheaters do suck, a lot of draconian trash has crept in under the guise of that banner. i have been finding my locked down expe
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by tescreal 2mo ago
While it is a neat parlor trick, a lot of people have specific grevience against the application to art. AI has only served to further disempower artists broadly, and arguably it pushes "art" to a lower common denominator. Try to
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by tescreal 2mo ago
TESSRAL, and no link... not a clever troll.